Large alien planets may be born in chaos, NASA's retired exoplanet-hunter finds

[Admin]

Using the now-retired Kepler space telescope, astronomers have discovered that larger planets grow up in more turbulent homes than smaller worlds.

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[Helio]

Nice article. That eccentricity is low for smaller mass exoplanets is interesting.

Here's my amateur approach to it in hopes to learn more:
[The mass is in log10 mass to squash them into place.]

It looks like there's an interesting gap in masses at about 2x that of Uranus or Neptune.


Data courtesy of exoplanet.eu
[However, I had to use their old mass data for their current missing data. Some masses were determined from given radii.]